Thousands of meters underwater in the middle of the Pacific lies a plentiful alternative source of nickel and other metals. The technology exists to mine it, companies are poised to start but international authorities haven't yet worked out how to regulate the mining. Hal Hudson: There are 340 million tons of nickel in the Clarion Clipperton Zone.
We sit down with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of electrified transport is going to need lots of nickel for batteries. We argue that, environmentally speaking, gathering it from the seafloor clearly beats mining it on land (11:12). And remembering Donald Triplett, the first person ever to be diagnosed with autism (19:25).
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